Coach Express

Are you interested to know what our training REALLY looks like? Are you curious about the coaching industry - and in particular the increasing number of coaching ‘niches‘ or ‘specialties‘?

You are? Then check this out….

We are giving all our subscribers the opportunity to come inside our classrooms and take a ’sneak peek’. Every week for 4 weeks, one of our Coach Trainers will hold a LIVE Teleseminar exploring a specific coaching niche.

Not only will you find out more about coaching, but you will get a unique experience of what it actually feels like to train via teleclass.

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Register your place at this LIVE event. (We will also make the recording available to all those who register)

By Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland, CEO ICA

I currently write a column for the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches, this is and edited version of that column - I hope you enjoy it and, as always, I welcome comments from you all.

I have been thinking a lot lately about the measurement of business coaching and an interesting range of people and experiences have helped me to clarify my thinking. I’d like to now share those thoughts and conversations with you.

First, I spent several weeks recently working extensively in China, developing our coach training school. I met many business coaches there and one common theme emerged-some individuals in China are actually coaching, but others really consulting and ‘adding on’ this new thing called coaching. The conversations then moved to the difference between coaching, consulting and training. I know that this conversation is not only occurring in China-it is occurring all over the world. (more…)

By Robyn Logan - Strategy Director ICA

“Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly”

“CoPs develop around things that matter to people… The difference between a CoP and a team is that the shared learning and interest or its members are what keeps it together. It is defined by knowledge rather than task. It exists because participation has value to members”

Etienne Wenger, 1998

Manuel Castells describes the internet as the most extraordinary technological revolution in history. And at it’s heart is not, as early punters first thought, powerful search engines, rather the ability to bring people with like minded interests and values together quickly, cheaply and easily. It’s the “like meets like” function and the “matching” function that proving to be the new drivers of the internet. It’s the networks and the communities who are driving the internet forward. (more…)

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